Post Silicon Component Verification & IC Validation

Post-silicon validation encompasses all that validation effort that is poured onto a system after the first few silicon prototypes become available, but before product release.

 

While in the past most of this effort was dedicated to validating electrical aspects of the design or diagnosing systematic manufacturing defects, today a growing portion of the effort focuses on functional system validation.

 

Post-silicon validation benefits from very high raw performance since tests are executed directly on manufactured silicon.